Environmental Engineering Reference
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Analyzing Energy Conservation
and Carbon Emissions Reductions
of China's 11th FYP Plan
Jinjun Xue and Yuezhong Zhu
Abstract
Energy security remains high on the Chinese central government agenda to
ensure sustained social and economic development because the dependency
rate of (the share oil import in total oil consumption) got to 56% in 2010. To
reduce energy import dependency and maintain stability of the international
energy market, China adopted measures to encourage the exploitation of domes-
tic energy resources, especially increased usage of natural gas and renewable
energies to combat climate change. Consequently, the self-sufficiency rate of
energy supply has remained at about 90% since 2000, which implies a majority
of its energy supply comes from domestic sources. Meanwhile, China has been
conducted policies of energy conservation and carbon emissions reductions in
the 11th FYP Plan and made great progress.
Keywords
Energy conservation • Energy dependency • Energy structure • Energy security
